Jiaohua

Chapter 519 A Lonely City (Part [-])
In the middle of the room is a big table made up of four desks, and the map of the capital city is laid out on the big table.

There are about ten people in the house where Zhu Xian usually works, and Song Du is also there.

Song Qingtang stood on the steps outside the window after eating, looking at the light shining through the window paper, he rushed back from Yongding Gate not only to eat two steamed buns, but now he hesitated again, wondering whether he should go up or not.

"General Song Lang?" Wei Zhengeng's voice sounded from behind.

Song Qingtang turned his head, Wei Zhengzheng came down from the corridor on the other side, holding a few books in his hand.

"Wei is engaged." Song Qingtang raised his hands and cupped his fists.

"Song Lang just came back?" Wei Zong looked at him in a dusty body and said, "It just so happens that the humble officer is looking for you, and Song Lang has found out some clues about what he asked Mr. Zhu to check."

Wei Zheng clapped the file in his hand.

"It's from Huiping's pawnshop?" Song Qingtang said.

"That's right," Wei Zheng said, looking up at the big house, "Well, let's go to the next door and ask Song Lang to invite you."

After entering the room and sitting down, Wei Zhengzheng opened a booklet, put it in front of Song Qingtang, and said directly: "The registered owner of Huiping's pawn shop is called Chen Shengliang, and he was dead three years ago."

"Dead?" Song Qingtang said, picking up the booklet.

Song Qingtang specially asked Zhu Xian to check Huiping's pawn shop.

More than ten days have passed, but the refugees outside the city are still there. Regardless of the siege equipment such as ladders and carts, the food provided for them is very large, and it must be supported by amazing financial resources.

The person Song Qingtang thought of at first was Zhao Ning. Wei Zong went to investigate specially. Zhao Ning's money accounts are very clear, and all the accounts are clear.

Some well-known big merchants in the city were also on the investigation list. Here, Song Qingtang suddenly thought of the place that made him particularly uneasy, which was the Huiping pawn shop where he went to arrest Cao Jun late at night.

He didn't confess to Cao Jun, and simply asked Zhu Xian to investigate, but now, in the register and tax book that Wei Zheng handed over, the owner of this HP pawnshop is actually a person who has been dead for three years.

"Did Sihu miss him during the audit?" Song Qingtang raised his head and said, "Didn't you check carefully?"

"Jiang Silu and Cao Sihu said that this content was originally in charge of the Ministry of Accounts," Wei Cong said, "We usually record and log it here, but if people from the Ministry of Accounts want to intervene, they will be given priority. Judging from the situation, they should have bribed the staff of the household department."

"But the clues haven't been cut off yet," Wei Zheng continued, "Through the deceased Chen Shengliang, we also found several other properties under his name, one of which was called Zuixianlou. It was reported to the government just before, and it was a very serious murder scene, and many people died. According to the neighbors, the owner of Zuixianlou is not named Chen, but Yang, and there are several twin brothers. We searched the drunken fairy tower and found several daggers that killed people."

He handed over another case file, saying: "These daggers came from a man named Fang Guanyan, who lived in Nanjiepu. He had placed a batch of orders for these daggers. It is very likely that he was responsible for this murder. Strange What's more, those neighbors said that Fang Guanyan often travels to Zuixianlou, and he has a good relationship with the current owner of Zuixianlou. We have not found Fang Guanyan so far. He has a little money, no wife, no concubine, no children. As for the status, there are only two possibilities, either you don’t want to look for it, or you just hid your wife and children. I will pursue his line, and go there when tomorrow dawns.”

Song Qingtang nodded, looking at the strange name Chen Shengliang, he felt more and more in his heart that those refugees outside must be related to this Huiping pawn shop.

"Wei is very good at it, and found out so many in such a short period of time." Song Qingtang said.

"Don't dare." Wei Zheng said.

Song Qingtang looked at the case, but he didn't feel too much joy in his heart.

In fact, these refugees are not so important anymore.

Because dealing with them is very simple, just procrastinate, procrastinate, ten days, 20 days, one month...

Song Qingtang admits that such thoughts are cruel, but this is the most realistic and objective. The other party will always run out of ammunition and food, no matter how strong a person's financial resources are, how can he compare with the material reserves of a capital.

Just like now, those refugees have lost the morale and resentment they had at the beginning, and their number has been greatly reduced. Apart from dying in pieces, there are still a large number of people going south, completely giving up on this city that cannot be conquered for a long time.

Today, the despair and dead silence outside the city are far deeper than inside the city.

What should really make the city uneasy is what will happen to the isolated city without backup support after the refugees, and the besieged faces they face.

Yong'an was the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties, and today's national capital, no one would not covet the fertile soil of Yong'an and the supremacy it represents behind it.

Whoever captures it first will be crowned king immediately.

The gold content of this "king" is far better than Tian Dayao's self-proclaimed "king".

And now...

Song Qingtang pursed his lips, and said in a deep voice, "Wei Zong, there is one thing that really worries me."

"What's the matter?" Wei Zheng was curious.

"General Ouyang said that [-] reinforcements will come to Beijing within five days," Song Qingtang said, "It's... the old army left by old General Ouyang after his death."

Wei Zheng's eyes widened, and he said in surprise, "General Ouyang Anfeng's old department?!"

"En." Song Qingtang nodded.

"Then, what about the front line?" Wei Zong felt speechless, "General Ouyang has been sticking to the front line, and he has been dragged back to Beijing this time. If he returns from the northwest, what will happen to our Yangmen Pass? ?”

Song Qingtang didn't speak, he just wanted to tell his father about this when he came back from Yongdingmen.

"That won't work," Wei Zheng shook his head, and said, "Tian Dayao, Song Zhiyi, those rioters outside the city, no matter how much trouble they make, they at least..."

At least it can be regarded as civil strife, and once the gates of Yangmen Pass and Hanling Pass fall, and those foreign races drive straight in, then it will not only be the country that will perish, but the clan, inheritance, and civilization.

Although 6000 people are being transferred back now, Wei Zong understands that when the front line is tight and the confrontation is difficult, even if only 600 people are transferred back, it will disrupt the morale of the army and is a big taboo.

"What should I do?" Wei Zhengshang slumped on a chair, "Li Ju is the damn dog emperor, this dog!"

However, the Yong'an City they are guarding now is still surnamed Qian.

Whether it was Wei Xinhua, Zhu Xian, Song Qingtang, Song Du, or the entire Dongping Academy, they were all written with the word "dead" on their foreheads by Emperor Xuanyan.

But if they don't keep it, what the nearly one million civilians in this city will face is a catastrophe.

How will his road go in the future, what kind of fortune will it become, the ancient city under his feet will be dry and prosperous again, Wei Zheng is full of confusion, not knowing where to go.

(End of this chapter)